Netflix Original Film Chief Pauline Fischer Leaves Company

Netflix’s Pauline Fischer, vice president of original films, is leaving the online entertainment content streaming company, TheWrap has learned.

In charge of global original films, Fischer was responsible for acquiring titles such as “Beasts of No Nation,” starring Idris Elba, and the Adam Sandler movies that the streaming giant is producing, among other film projects.

Fischer, who has been working with chief content officer Ted Sarandos and was at the company for eight years, is planning to start a business development consultancy firm upon her exit.

She will be consulting on active Netflix productions as she transitions out over the next several weeks.

Fischer is also responsible for gaining the rights to the Paul Rudd-starring dramedy “The Fundamentals of Caring” after it screened at the Sundance Film Festival, among other titles.

“Pauline Fischer has mounted an incredible slate of original films for Netflix and we are grateful to her for getting this important initiative underway,” Sarandos said in a statement (first reported by Variety).

“In the year ahead, we will be exclusively premiering ‘Bright‘ from David Ayer starring Will Smith, ‘War Machine‘ from David Michod starring Brad Pitt, ‘Okja‘ from Bong Joon Ho starring Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano; and ‘Our Souls at Night‘ from Ritesh Batra starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, among many others,” Sarandos went on to say, adding, “Netflix continues to build its original film initiative to give consumers around the world great new movies to enjoy when and how they want.”

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Netflix

"Sandy Wexler" (2017)Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 33%

"There's no way to recommend it, yet I wouldn't ask for my two hours back (though I do wish that they could have been sped up somewhat)" New Yorker critic Richard Brody wrote.

Netflix

"The Week Of" (2018)Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 33%

"The best that can be said about 'The Week Of 'is that it at least tacks some heart onto an otherwise stale, mothball-scented set-up," EW critic Chris Nashawaty wrote in 2017.

“Little Nicky” (2000) Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 22%

“Like spending 84 minutes in Hell,” critic Christy Lemire wrote when it hit theaters in 2000.

New Line Cinema

“That’s My Boy” (2012) Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 20%

“Vulgar, trite, sexist, misogynist, hacky, tacky, gross, sentimental and stupid, with occasional flourishes of racism and veiled homophobia thrown in to boot,” TheWrap’s Alonso Duralde wrote in his 2012 review.

Columbia Pictures

“Just Go With It” (2011)Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 19%

“An early contender for worst movie of the year. If they were showing this on an airplane, I'd ask for a parachute,” Richard Roeper wrote in 2011.

Columbia Pictures

“Pixels” (2015) Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 17%

“A middle finger aimed right at the audience,” The Verge critic Bryan Bishop wrote in 2015.

Columbia Pictures

“Blended” (2014) Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 14%

“I felt like it was crushing the soul out of me. But it's still not as bad as Grown-Ups 2,” TheWrap’s Alonso Duralde wrote in his review of 2014 movie co-starring Drew Barrymore.

“Even unrepentant homophobes deserve funnier,” Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips wrote in his 2007 review of movie about two firefighters who pretend to be gay to get benefits of a domestic partnership.

Universal Pictures

“Grown Ups” (2010) Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 10%

“I felt a deep sadness every time the audience laughed and the sounds of their chuckles turned into the ringing of the cash register, and all I thought was a grim, simple truth: This, America, is why we can't have nice things,” critic James Rocchi wrote of the 2010 reunion flick starring some of Sandler’s best buddies.

Columbia Pictures

“The Cobbler” (2015) Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 9%

“A movie like this, in which not a single scene comes together, in which almost nothing makes you laugh or cry or think, reminds you that it's truly a miracle when movies work at all,” Pulitzer Prize winner Wesley Morris wrote in 2015 about the surprisingly bad film from “Spotlight” director Tom McCarthy.

Image Entertainment

“Grown Ups 2” (2013) Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 7%

“Yes, it's time for another visit to the Adam Sandler Death-of-Cinema Fun Factory, the big-screen version of a terrible sitcom where laugh tracks are replaced by the co-stars chuckling at their own awful material,” TheWrap’s Alonso Duralde wrote about this unnecessary sequel in 2013.

Columbia Pictures

"The Do-Over" (2016) Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 6%

"It takes a certain blithe self-confidence to take this Scotch-taped-together plot and run it out well past the 90-minute mark," critic Jesse Hassenger wrote.

Netflix

"Jack & Jill" Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 3 percent

“Comedy moved on from the mid-1990s, and it's time Sandler did, too. ‘Jack and Jill’ even gives fart jokes a bad name,” critic Jake Coyle wrote in 2011.